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A Tennessee man accused of killing a soldier outside a Little Rock, Ark., military recruiting station last year has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming for the first time that he is affiliated with a Yemen-based affiliate of Al Qaeda. In a letter to the judge presiding over his case, the accused killer, Abdulhakim Muhammad, calls himself a soldier in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and calls the shooting “a Jihadi Attack” in retribution for the killing of Muslims by American troops. “I wasn’t insane or post traumatic nor was I forced to do this...

New Issue of Sada al-Malahim January 19th, 2009 | Jihadi journals, Motivations, Strategy, Yemen, propaganda SNIPPET: "Al-Qaida in Yemen (AQY) has released the seventh issue of its magazine Sada al-Malahim (SM), adding to the mounting evidence that the group is thriving." SNIPPET: "At the same time, AQY also advocates direct confrontation with the far enemy. In the text accompanying the magazine release, the Emir of AQY, Abu Basir, is quoted as saying “we are preparing to open training camps to send you [Palestinians] a generation of reinforcements.” There is in other words a tension in AQY’s ideological production between two...

JAKARTA — Indonesian police on Monday questioned jailed Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant group, as a suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings. Early this month, the chief of the National Police anti-terror division, Pranowo said "there is additional, new evidence showing his possible involvement" in the Oct 12, 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, referring to the testimonies of "many witnesses" who are against Bashir. (Kyodo News)